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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Surely it’s a strange decision to negotiate no gardening leave with RB if he was just going to retire anyway?

    Maybe it was a just in case measure. So that he can say yes if the right opportunity arrives. Either way he is in a weird spot when it comes to designing a 2026 car. By the time he leaves Red Bull in 2025, the teams will have already laid down the fundamental design of their 2026 car, so he wouldn’t be able to design it from the ground up. And in the era of the cost cap, the cars of the following years will likely be evolutions of the 2026 car rather than Newey’s own design. We saw how long it took Mercedes to get away from their zero sidepod design and it’s probably still hurting them.



  • That woman (Alice Weidel) is a rollercoaster of contradictions:

    • She is one of the leaders of the far-right and nationalist party AfD, but lives in Switzerland herself.
    • She lives with her girlfriend but refuses to call herself queer and voted against gay marriage
      • her girlfriend voted pro gay marriage in Switzerland
    • Said girlfriend is a Swiss immigrant, originating from Sri Lanka, but Weidel promotes the typical anti-immigrant politics you’d expected from a right wing nut job


  • The only thing that can stop a bad guy with e2e encryption is not letting the good guys have e2e encryption! (or something like that)

    The topic of freedom vs security is as old as statesmanship and philosophy, and most would agree that at least some freedoms must be given up to achieve an appropriate amount of safety. The problem however comes with human psychology: while by most metrics we are at record levels safety in these modern times, this doesn’t reflect into the human perception - it just becomes the new baseline. If this wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t even be a debate to give up the fundamental freedom of privacy just to provide whatever sliver of extra security this might possibly yield.